Word: hot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seven eight-oared shells bobbed on the waters of the Hudson. To the rear bobbed in unison a strange assortment of craft. On the banks of the river a large, hot, cheering crowd yelled their lungs inside out. "Crack," snapped the starter's gun, and 56 oars buried themselves in the water, while seven megaphoned coxes roared at their crews. Thus began the Varsity eight-oar shell race of the Intercollegiate Regetta...
...best one among them-Miss Cecil Leitch-withdrew because of the hot weather...
...anomalous that the pedagogs now swelter on hot June days in gowns that their clerical predecessors wore for warmth in the chill Middle Ages. Down the back of the agnostic philosopher hangs a cowl that the friar invented to warm his ears after paternosters...
...think that hasty judgments, idle words, careless statements of passing impressions are unimportant; and yet these may have a distinct influence on those who hear them. Everyone truly counts to some extent, for although many people from no opinions of their own and merely reflect their surroundings--Laodiceans, neither hot nor cold--spineless drifters without self-direction--still they have an effect, and may both prevent the spread of right thought and promote a mischievous course. They are a shitting cargo in the ship of state, a peril if the bulkheads break...
...psalmist promised to the faithful freedom from both sunstroke and moonstroke. The meaning of the first of these is clear--especially in the hot climate where the psalm was written. But to most people at the present day the second promise is either meaningless, or a reminder of an ancient, and obsolete superstition that the shining of the moon on the face during sleep will cause insanity a superstition still preserved in our word lunatic...